What happens
Gildersleeve and his niece Marjorie find a baby and are told they must be married to adopt her, so Marjorie resolves to marry to keep the child. She picks Ben, a sensible young man, but Ben is not interested, and Gildersleeve tries to distract her by inviting Wally Hall over. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode aired on NBC on October 20, 1948, starring Harold Peary. Marjorie's plans and the adoption question continue to complicate the household.
Summerfield, a small town; the Gildersleeve household and nearby streets, Sunday afternoon through the following evening.
Characters: Great Gildersleeve, Marjorie, Judge Hooker, Ben, Wally Hall, Bertie, Leroy, Phoebe
Listen for: Marjorie's plan to marry Ben so the baby can be adopted, and Gildersleeve's attempts to change her mind.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.